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auer rod

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English

Syllables
auer rod
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

clumps of azurophilic granular material that typically form elongated needles seen in the cytoplasm of myeloid leukemic blast cells.

Etymology

First described in 1905 by a Canadian physician, Thomas McCrae, then at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, one year before John Auer (1875-1948), the US physiologist after whom they are named.

Inflected Forms

Auer rods (plural)

Synonyms

Auer body

Questions

What does auer rod mean?
clumps of azurophilic granular material that typically form elongated needles seen in the cytoplasm of myeloid leukemic blast cells.
Where does auer rod come from?
First described in 1905 by a Canadian physician, Thomas McCrae, then at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, one year before John Auer (1875-1948), the US physiologist after whom they are named.

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